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Quake3 Engine Query Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA14273  
Release Date: 2005-02-14
Last Update: 2005-02-21

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Medal of Honor
Quake3 Engine 1.x
Soldier of Fortune II 1.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-0430 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Quake3 Engine, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of overly long queries and can be exploited to shutdown or crash a vulnerable service via a specially crafted UDP datagram.

The following games use Quake3 Engine and may be affected:
* Call of Duty version 1.5 and prior
* Call of Duty: United Offensive version 1.51 and prior
* Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.2 version 1.02 and prior
* Quake III Arena version 1.32 and prior
* Return to Castle Wolfenstein version 1.41 and prior
* Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix version 1.03 and prior
* Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force version 1.20 and prior
* Star Trek: Elite Force II version 1.10 and prior
* Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast version 1.04 and prior
* Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy version 1.011 and prior
* Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory version 1.02 / 2.56 and prior

Solution:
Host games on trusted networks only.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Luigi Auriemma

Changelog:
2005-02-21: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/q3infoboom-adv.txt



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

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4. Soldier of Fortune II Ignore Command Denial of Service
5. Quake3 Engine Denial of Service Vulnerability
6. Soldier of Fortune II Buffer Overflow and Denial of Service
7. Medal of Honor Buffer Overflow Vulnerability


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